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How Brooklyn Is Working Toward a Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan

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A new piece of legislation in the City Council aims to transform the ad hoc nature of rooftop farms, schoolyard plots and community gardens into a comprehensive urban agriculture plan for the city.

New York City has the most urban farms and gardens of any city in the country, but they lack citywide coordination. A piece of legislation introduced at the City Council on July 20 by Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and City Councilmember Rafael Espinal (D-Bushwick, East New York) aims to transform the ad hoc nature of rooftop farms, schoolyard plots and community gardens into a comprehensive urban agriculture plan for the city.

In the press release about the bill, Adams envisions transforming “Brooklyn’s urban spaces from concrete jungles to green oases.”

The bill proposes to catalog existing and potential urban agriculture spaces throughout the city; to classify and prioritize urban agriculture uses; to identify potential land use policies to promote the expansion of urban agriculture across the city; and to analyze current zoning, building, and fire codes to help foster the industry. In doing so, Adams and Espinal hope to encourage youth development and education with regard to local food production, and to create green jobs. The bill also proposes to integrate urban agriculture into the city’s conservation and resiliency plans and to create an Office of Urban Agriculture in the city.

According to a recent white paper from the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship, policies governing urban agriculture remain “extremely nebulous,” and tend to benefit sophisticated, large-scale enterprises in commercial and industrial zones. The proposed legislation provides an opportunity to clarify zoning language and to better address the needs of lower income communities by building capacity for small-scale urban agriculture projects in residential areas and ensuring that the fruits of urban agriculture expansion benefit poorer areas of the city.

“Urban farming will address the issues of potential food insecurities in major cities by turning current food deserts in low-income communities into food farms,” said Espinal.

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Renuncia concejal dominicano en NYC

Renuncia concejal dominicano en NYC

Por Ramón Mercedes

NUEVA YORK.- El concejal dominicano en Brooklyn, Rafael Espinal, renunció la semana pasada a esa posición ante el Concejo Municipal de esta ciudad.

Después de dos años como asambleísta estatal en Albany y seis en el Concejo Municipal, Espinal abandona definitivamente la política electoral, según su carta de renuncia.

El oficial electo por el distrito 37-Brooklyn, que cubre los…

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Renuncia concejal dominicano en NYC

Renuncia concejal dominicano en NYC

Por Ramón Mercedes

NUEVA YORK.- El concejal dominicano en Brooklyn, Rafael Espinal, renunció la semana pasada a esa posición ante el Concejo Municipal de esta ciudad.

Después de dos años como asambleísta estatal en Albany y seis en el Concejo Municipal, Espinal abandona definitivamente la política electoral, según su carta de renuncia.

El oficial electo por el distrito 37-Brooklyn, que cubre los…

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NY SLA SIDES WITH HUDSON YARDS

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Concejal dominicano por Brooklyn aspira a Defensor del Pueblo

Concejal dominicano por Brooklyn aspira a Defensor del Pueblo

Por Ramón Mercedes

NUEVA YORK.- El carismático concejal dominicano por el distrito 37 en Brooklyn, Rafael Espinal, anunció recientemente que aspira a la posición de “Defensor del Pueblo”, luego que la incumbente, Lititia James, ganara el cargo de Fiscal General del estado de Nueva York en las pasadas elecciones.

Espinal, quien ha recibido el apoyo de diferentes sectores influyentes de la ciudad,…

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New York City To Enforce New, Expand Calorie Labeling Rule

New York City To Enforce New, Expand Calorie Labeling Rule

Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett announced announced that the City will being enforcing updated calorie labeling rules today. (more…)

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NY SLA Suspends Delilah’s Liquor License at 155 Rivington Street After Stabbing

Delilah’s is operated by the same owner as neighborhood problem venues: The DL and The Delancey (sans Paul Seres)

"Politically connected" Paul Seres, former president of the New York Nightlife Association and a founding trustee of the New York City Hospitality Alliance lobbied for passage of CM Rafael Espinal’s and Mayor de Blasio’s Nightlife Mayor & Advisory Board “want[s] it to be clear [he] is only a minor investor." At CB3 and NYPD 7th Precinct Council meetings, Paul Seres represents himself otherwise...

SLA Suspends Delilah’s Liquor License After Weekend of Slashings and Fights (Bowery Boogie) 

Lower East Side bar Delilah sees liquor license suspended over stabbings, fights and excessively drunken patrons (Daily News)

Upside looks like Paul Seres is no longer a contender for Nightlife Mayor after a series of violent incidences at The DL and Delilah’s...

Paul Seres flanks CM Rafael Espinal and Mayor de Blasio at signing of the Nightlife Mayor Bill

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Concejal dominicano exige a los Yankees vallas de seguridad para evitar que fauls golpeen fanáticos

Concejal dominicano exige a los Yankees vallas de seguridad para evitar que fauls golpeen fanáticos

Miguel Cruz Tejada

NUEVA YORK,-El concejal dominicano de El Bronx, Rafael Espinal, está exigiendo a la organización de los Yankees de Nueva York, colocar vallas protectoras alrededor de las áreas abiertas, donde se sientan los fanáticos como los palcos alrededor de las líneas de primera y tercera base, para evitar que bolas bateadas de fauls, golpeen a los fanáticos, como ocurrió el miércoles en…

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